Subj : Re: Upgrading is a lot of money To : Charles Dye From : meirman Date : Sat Jan 05 2002 05:42 pm From: meirman In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Sun, 06 Jan 2002 01:14:56 GMT raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye) posted: >On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 19:39:45 -0500, meirman >wrote: > >>I bought 4Dos for win3.1 and 4dos for win9x and Take Command 16 and TC >>32, and now I want to upgrade my system to winxp. >>The price seems awfully high for a regular customer, $70. And I > >What exactly did you purchase, the CD Suite? If so, an upgrade >to the current version of the entire suite should be $55, not $70. No, I bought the four things I listed. >If you bought separate licenses for 4DOS and Take Command, then >the way I read the price list, you could just convert one 4DOS >license to 4NT for $35. I didn't see anything about converting. That would be the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks for pointing it out. Oh yes, here it is. It was a long page and I guess when I saw New Single Products and Manuals, I didn't go any further. I didn't expect to see a category Converting to a New One. Adding a Product (or Converting to a New One) If you purchase or already own one or more of our command processors and wish to use another on the same system, you can purchase the new one at a substantially reduced price as shown below. The same prices apply if you want to stop using the old command processor and switch to a new one (for example, due to a change in operating systems). If you need a command processor for a different system, see the New Single Product prices above or the special reduced rates on our Multi-System License Price List. PRODUCT PRICE ITEM # WEIGHT -------------------------- ------ ------ ------ Current Products: 4DOS $29.95 RE200 1 lb 4NT $29.95 RE220 1 lb Take Command/32 $29.95 RE240 1 lb > Upgrading Take Command to the current >version would be another $35, Well, in 3.1, Take Command included the Task List, Alt-T, which has been very useful for ending tasks that didn't fully end the regular way. (Of course even then, some of them wouldn't restart, or would crash when I tried to restart them, but still.) I don't write code or utilities for pc's and I really haven't gotten any use from TC for win98. >so if you want both it would make >more sense just to spend the $70 and convert one or the other to >the CD Suite and get all the products. That's what I did this >time around. > >>gather, 20 more dollars for the manual. And they talk about how many >>new things there are, so I suppose I need the manual. > >I for one am not going to spend any money on the manual until it >actually starts shipping. I wouldn't either, but also I didn't see that it wasn't ready yet. meirman@QQQerols.com If you email me, please let me know whether remove the QQQ or not you are posting the same letter. --- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-2 * Origin: Mach2 Systems (1:342/3) .